Category Manager (Home Entertainment) Amazon UAE

Amazon UAE is presently looking for a smart, hard working and creative candidate to join them for job position of Category Manager (Home Entertainment category). Amazon is a multinational technology company that started as an online marketplace and has since expanded to various industries, offering a wide range of products, services and innovations. It strives to be Earth’s most customer centric company, Earth’s best employer and Earth’s safest place to work. Customer reviews, 1- click shopping, personalized recommendations, prime, fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, kindle direct publishing, kindle, career choice, fire tablets, fire TV, amazon echo, alexa, just walk out technology, amazon studios and climate pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. At Amazon, customers find everything that they are looking for online, at great prices and ease.

Job Purpose of A Category Manager (Home Entertainment)

To drive the growth and profitability of the Home Entertainment category by executing effective merchandising and business strategies.

Your Job Responsibilities As A Category Manager (Home Entertainment) At Amazon UAE

• Act as the ‘business owner‘ for assigned category, possessing a complete understanding (inclusive of the strategic context) of internal and external variables that has impact on business (this entails owning fore casting, monitoring, understanding and reporting on the business, along with responsibility for driving projects and promotions to achieve business goals).
• Have an understanding of the industry, seasonality and business trends / events.
• Monitor competitor / industry developments.
• Maximize Amazon’s business profitability and seek expansion ideas.
• Have a complete understanding of the customer needs, both existing and potential.
• Use same customer knowledge to advocate for & drive delivery of site features that give Amazon customers with great shopping experience.
• Manage vendor relationships.
• Manage supplier / partner contracts, manage day to day relationships and negotiate and secure marketing funds.
• Create business plans for new opportunities & develop project plans for the launch of new features.
• Coordinate cross functional teams and communicate with all stake holders, while meeting tight deadlines.
• Conduct financial analysis of business opportunities to meet and exceed revenue and profitability targets.

Qualification & Experience?

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field.
• 5 plus years of professional or military experience.
• 3 plus years with excel experience.
• 5 plus years of retail, operations, product or program management or business management.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field.
• 7 plus years of retail, operations, product or program management or business management.
• Knowledge of Excel and extracting data through varied reporting tools in order to drive and influence business decisions.

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